Broadband electromagnetic induction response form conducting and permeable spheroids

Chi-On Ao; Henning Braunisch; Kevin O'Neill; Jin Au Kong; Leung Tsang; Joel Tidmore Johnson

doi:10.1117/12.445459

18 October 2001 Broadband electromagnetic induction response form conducting and permeable spheroids

Chi-On Ao, Henning Braunisch, Kevin O'Neill, Jin Au Kong, Leung Tsang, Joel Tidmore Johnson

Proceedings Volume 4394, Detection and Remediation Technologies for Mines and Minelike Targets VI; (2001) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.445459
Event: Aerospace/Defense Sensing, Simulation, and Controls, 2001, Orlando, FL, United States

Abstract

Broadband electromagnetic induction (EMI) methods are promising in the detection and discrimination of subsurface metallic targets. We compute EMI responses from conducting and permeable spheroids by using a field expansion method which is based on the separation of variables in spheroidal coordinates. In addition to an exact formulation which utilizes the vector spheroidal wavefunctions inside the spheroid, we also develop an approximate theory known as the small penetration-depth approximation (SPA). For general permeability, SPA is applicable at high frequency and compliments the exact formulation which breaks down at high frequency. However, when the permeability of the spheroid is large enough, the SPA yields an accurate broadband response. Numerical results for the far-field frequency responses from prolate and oblate spheroids are presented. By neglecting mutual interactions between the spheroids, we also study the broadband EMI response from a collection of spheroids that are randomly oriented and have different sizes.

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Chi-On Ao, Henning Braunisch, Kevin O'Neill, Jin Au Kong, Leung Tsang, and Joel Tidmore Johnson "Broadband electromagnetic induction response form conducting and permeable spheroids", Proc. SPIE 4394, Detection and Remediation Technologies for Mines and Minelike Targets VI, (18 October 2001); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.445459

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